Canberra, November 15, : , The South Australian state government (SA) announced Monday major changes in the isolation requirements for Covid-19 contacts ahead of reopening of the border.SA Premier Steven Marshall announced that from November 23, fully vaccinated South Australians who are deemed a close contact of a coronavirus case will only have to quarantine for seven days, reports Xinhua news agency.
Steven Marshall, the SA Premier, announced that South Australians who have been deemed close to a coronavirus infection will be able to stay in quarantine for seven days starting November 23.
Fully vaccinated casual contacts will only be required to self-isolate until they test negative for Covid-19.Only fully vaccinated casual contacts are required to isolate themselves until they test negative against Covid-19.
Currently anyone deemed a contact of a positive case in SA must quarantine for 14 days regardless of their vaccination status.
Anyone deemed to be a contact in a positive case must remain quarantined for 14 days, regardless of whether or not they have been vaccinated.
“We will be very, very significantly reducing the test, trace, isolate and quarantine requirements,” Marshall told reporters.
Marshall stated to reporters that he would reduce the requirements for test, trace and isolate as well as quarantine.
“In the past, we’ve had to take a pretty heavy-handed approach, quite frankly, because a single case could set off a cluster which would lock down our state.”.”In the past we had to be quite heavy-handed because one case could trigger a cluster that would lock down our state.”
The change will coincide with SA opening its borders to fully vaccinated travellers from the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), New South Wales and Victoria when it is expected to reach 80 per cent of over-16s fully vaccinated on November 23.This change will occur as SA opens its borders to fully vaccinated travellers coming from Australia Capital Territory (ACT), New South Wales, and Victoria.It is expected that it will reach 80 percent of fully vaccinated over-16s on November 23.
It will mark the first time since August that travellers from those regions, which were under Covid-19 lockdowns in the past months and account for more than half the Australian population, will be allowed into SA without quarantining for 14 days.This will be the first time since August that travelers from these regions, which have been under Covid-19 lockdowns for the past months, are allowed to enter SA without quarantining for 14 consecutive days.
“We are going to do it in a careful and considered way.”We will do it carefully and thoughtfully.In the first instance we are only going to have those people who are fully vaccinated able to come into South Australia,” Marshall said.
Marshall stated that only those who have been fully vaccinated will be allowed to enter South Australia in the first instance.
“We know this is going to be a huge relief for families, for businesses, those state borders have been extraordinarily punishing.”.”We know that this will be a tremendous relief for families and businesses.Those state borders have been extraordinarily oppressive.”
On Monday morning, Australia reported 1,035 new locally-acquired Covid-19 cases, all of which were in the ACT, NSW and Victoria with six deaths, as the country continues to battle the third wave of COVID-19 infections.Australia reported Monday morning 1,035 new Covid-19 cases locally.All of them were in the ACT and NSW with six deaths.
The country is still fighting the third wave COVID-19 infection.
As of Monday, 90.5 percent of Australians aged 16 and older had received one vaccine dose and 83.2 per cent were fully inoculated, according to the latest data released by the Department of Health.According to the most recent data from the Department of Health, 90.5 per cent of Australians 16 years and older had received at least one dose of vaccines, while 83.2 percent were fully inoculated as of Monday.
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